New films across cinemas starting 7 May
- The Sheep Detectives, starring Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Galitzine, Nicholas Braun
- Mortal Kombat 2, starring Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph, Jessica McNamee
- Hokum, starring Austin Amelio, Adam Scott, Peter Coonan
- Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour, starring Billie Eilish
- Cotton Queen, starring Mahad Mortada, Raha Mohamed Mahmoud, Talaat Farid, Haram Bashir
Awlad El-Batta El-Souda (The Black Ducklings)
Starting Thursday 7 May at 7:30pm
Performed daily except Mondays, until 20 May
Hanager Theatre, Cairo Opera grounds, Zamalek, Cairo
Written and directed by Abir Ali Hozein, the performance combines storytelling, singing, sketches, and short acts.
Youssef Chahine films
Zawya cinema, 15, Emad Eddin St., Downtown, Cairo
Thursday 7 May, 7pm
Wara’a Hobbak (1950)
Friday 8 May, 7pm
Enta Habibi (1957)
Sunday 10 May, 7pm
Bab El-Hadid (Cairo Station, 1958)
Fifteen Minutes Festival - theatre
Thursday 7, Friday 8, Saturday 9 May, 8pm
Falaki Theatre, AUC Tahrir, Al Falaki Str, Abdeen, Cairo
The Fifteen Minutes Festival at The American University in Cairo is a student-led theatre event showcasing a series of short plays, each lasting around 15 minutes, performed at the Falaki Mainstage in Tahrir.
Organized by the ACT Theatre Group, the festival embraces fast-paced, experimental storytelling, giving young writers and performers space to explore bold and unconventional ideas.
This year’s theme, Till Death Do Us Part, focuses on the chaotic and often absurd dimensions of love and relationships.
Mood of Oud - music
Friday 10 January, 8pm
Noir Art Zone, Soliman El-Halaby St, off Ramses St, Downtown Cairo
Mood of Oud is a project by Michael Onsi inviting audiences to his own compositions and arrangements.
Onsi will be accompanied by Peter Romani (nay), Azar Qaddis (violin), Bilal Al-Hanawi (cello), and Yassin Badr (percussion)
Composer and oud player, Onsi studied oud at Cairo's Beit El-Oud, founded by Naseer Shamma, and graduated with excellence in late 2017.
A series of concerts and tours followed, in which he played with different troupes, many led by Shamma. Alongside this, Onsy began composing his own music until his trajectory converged on Mood for Oud, a project which he presented on numerous stages.
A Room of Her Own - theatre
Friday 8, Saturday 9 May, 7pm
Rawabet Art Space, 5 Hussein Basha Al Meamari, Downtown, Cairo
A Room of Her Own is a poetic physical theatre piece set in a single, timeless room where three women inhabit the same space without seeing one another, each absorbed in her own solitude.
Through movement, fragmented narrative, and minimal text, the performance follows how memory persists in gestures, silences, and everyday rituals. As their inner worlds begin to echo, recurring movements and shifting rhythms suggest subtle, unseen connections, gradually turning the space into a reflection on presence and absence, where silence becomes quietly shared.
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